With nine months left for another Lok Sabha election, last Monday’s national debating tournament at Jadavpur University — “Voxpop 2013” was their fancy name for it — may not have been without a political message. Nothing obvious and, of course, it was unintended, but the youth whom P. Chidambaram wa... | Read..

If I walk down this hallway, tonight/ It’s too quiet/ So I pad through the dark/ And call you on the phone/ Push your old numbers/ And let your house ring/ Till I wake your ghost./ Let him walk down your hallway/ It’s not this quiet/ Slide down your receiver, sprint across the wire/ Follow my number/ Slide into my hand./ It’s the blaze across my nightgown/ It’s the phone’s ring./ I think last night/ You were driving circles around me. — KRISTIN HERSH